Sprechen Sie Deutsch?

[Overpaid Union Thug]

They make no where near what we make in America from what I hear. I find it hard to believe they are treated and pushed anywhere near the way we are. I imagine it being like a FedEx express atmosphere.

When UPS expanded into Germany we had a terrible time finding Germans that were willing to do the job. We mainly hired foreign "guest workers" because most Germans looked down on driving a delivery truck for a living. The ones that did work weren't exactly willing to adopt the American way of being a UPS driver. Europeans work to live. Not the other way around. I would like to find a happy medium in there somewhere. LOL!

 

[rod]

When UPS expanded into Germany we had a terrible time finding Germans that were willing to do the job. We mainly hired foreign "guest workers" because most Germans looked down on driving a delivery truck for a living. The ones that did work weren't exactly willing to adopt the American way of being a UPS driver. Europeans work to live. Not the other way around. I would like to find a happy medium in there somewhere. LOL!

If I remember right the first time we started in Germany was a disaster and one of the sticking points was that UPS wouldn't allow the German drivers to have a beer at lunch. After a big up roar UPS pulled out for a another year or two before they tried it again---this time allowing a beer with lunch. You don't mess with a Germans beer.

 

[Overpaid Union Thug]

If I remember right the first time we started in Germany was a disaster and one of the sticking points was that UPS wouldn't allow the German drivers to have a beer at lunch. After a big up roar UPS pulled out for a another year or two before they tried it again---this time allowing a beer with lunch. You don't mess with a Germans beer.

The beer and Germans weren't about to run their asses off to deliver packages and they sure as hell weren't working the same hours as an American UPS driver.

 

[Wally]

How is he not wearing shorts? Looks like decent weather. Got ac?

Doesn't get hot and humid there like it does here.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

When UPS expanded into Germany we had a terrible time finding Germans that were willing to do the job. We mainly hired foreign "guest workers" because most Germans looked down on driving a delivery truck for a living. The ones that did work weren't exactly willing to adopt the American way of being a UPS driver. Europeans work to live. Not the other way around. I would like to find a happy medium in there somewhere. LOL!

Foreign "guest worker" usually means Turkish in Germany.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

My mom is German. In my teenage years I was yelled at very much in German. It made it even scarier.

Aschloch? Scheiskoph?

 

[Overpaid Union Thug]

Foreign "guest worker" usually means Turkish in Germany.

Exactly right. That's who most were.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Germany's Mexicans. Except they are doing it legally.

 

[InRythmWithTime]

Nope

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Saw one of these on base PAX river when visiting family in md

Thought it looked like a ups truck and a sprinter had a baby

no 3 points of contact, what???

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Aschloch? Scheiskoph?

ich verstehe nicht. Mein Mutter ist Deutsch, aber mein Deutsch ist schlecht. Ich bin 'Murican, ich spreche Englisch

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Schlecht? Better than mine. My sloppy spellings from my short time there 31 years ago. My apologies. Some day I'll try to learn it properly.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Schlecht? Better than mine. My sloppy spellings from my short time there 31 years ago. My apologies. Some day I'll try to learn it properly.

Mine isn't a whole lot better. I never really use it anymore.

 

[watdaflock?]

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